Personal Systems Magazine

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A bimonthly print magazine released by IBM's Personal Systems Division in Texas, USA that was during its later years squarely focused on OS/2, although some other PS Division subjects such as PowerPC were covered from time to time. Note that it was not a free marketing publication but rather intended as a technical magazine for manager and required a somewhat hefty paid subscription, but on the other hand it was a professionally designed publication had an excellent layout and even had custom created cartoons, graphic illustrations and the like.

Issues

1989

Cover Content
Issue 4, 1989

Hardware

Micro Channel Architecture
  • 1 Executive Comments
  • 3 Requirements for Advanced Bus Architecture
  • 23 Micro Channel System Configuration Considerations
  • 43 Features and Benefits
  • 48 Bus Masters and Applications
Extended Features
  • 53 Overview of Extended Micro Channel Functions
  • 61 New Micro Channel Features
  • 66 SCB - An Architecture for Micro Channel Bus Masters
Bus Master Design and Applications
  • 83 Design Alternatives with Micro Channel Systems
  • 86 IBM PS/2® Micro Channel SCSI Adapters
  • 93 PS/2 Wizard Adapter
  • 96 Experience in Bus Master Design
  • 99 Bus Master Adapters from Independent Option Vendors

Software

  • 104 Bus Masters and OS/2 ®
  • 112 Micro Channel Issues in AIX™ PS/2

Random Data

  • 119 Information for Developers
  • 124 Book Report
  • 125 New Products

1990

Cover Content
Issue 2, 1990
Software
Operating System/2™
  • 1 OS/2 End User Advantages
  • 9 What's New in OS/2 Standard Edition Version 1.2?
  • 13 An Application Developer's View of OS/2
  • 18 Object-Oriented Programming with C and OS/2 PM -ls It Possible?
  • 24 Design Goals and Implementation of the New High Performance File System
  • 36 OS/2 EE 1.2 Database Manager™ - Remote Data Services
  • 47 OS/2 EE Database Manager Precompiler API
  • 53 UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT
  • 58 Writing a Database Manager COBOL/2™ Program
  • 67 Database Manager Programming with Procedures Language 2/REXX
  • 80 AP_PC Performance Tips for OS/2 EE
  • 92 EASEL® OS/2 EE PROFS: Host Code Interface
  • 102 PS/2® RPG II Application Platform and Toolkit

Random Data

  • 106 The IBM Independence Series™ Products
  • 111 New Products
Issue 3, 1990
Issue 4, 1990

1991

Cover Content
Issue 1, 1991
Issue 2, 1991
Issue 3, 1991
Issue 4, 1991

1992

Cover Content
January, 1992
G325-5014-00

Hardware

  • 1 Additions to the IBM PS/1 Family
  • 7 IBM LaserPrinter 4029 Series Print Quality Enhancements

Software

  • 13 OS/2 2.0: The Integrating Platform
  • 19 Multiple Virtual DOS Machines
  • 10 IBM OS/2 LAN Server 2.0
  • 41 OS/2 2.0 Memory Management
  • 45 Coding for Performance Under OS/2 Version 2.0
  • 49 Extending the Functions of OS/2 REXX 54 Protecting User Exits Under OS/2 1.X
  • 62 GDDM-OS/2 Link
  • 65 IBM Upgrade Enhanced Install Utility/DOS 5.0
  • 67 Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking: An Overview
  • 73 Using IBM SAA Networking Services/2
  • 80 The AAI Family of Products
  • 83 Securing the Enterprise Workstation

Random Data

  • 87 Little Solutions
  • 89 New Products
April, 1992
G325-5015-00

Hardware

  • 1 Comparing Architectures: Micro Channel and EISA
  • 13 Portable Computer Trends and Directions
  • 18 LCD Panel Technology

Software

  • 22 The OS/2 Workplace Shell
  • 32 New Applications in OS/2 2.0
  • 35 Unattended Installation of OS/2 2.0
  • 44 OS/2 Communications Manager Trace Events
  • 48 IBM and Novell LAN Software Coexistence
  • 60 IBM 8209 LAN Bridge Connects Ethernet Clients to Novell and IBM Servers
  • 63 Backup and Restore in an IBM NetWare Environment
  • 66 The DOS Protected-Mode Environment
  • 71 DOS Disk Management
  • 77 Customizing Alphanumeric Screen Dimensions

Random Data

  • 82 Little Solutions
  • 85 New Products
OS/2 Systems Migration Considerations, 1992
G325-5016-00
July, 1992
G325-5017-00
Focus On Micro Channel Architecture, 1992
G325-5018-00
October, 1992
G325-5019-00

1993

Cover Content
January, 1993
G325-5020-00
April, 1993
G325-5021-00
July / August, 1993
September / October, 1993
November / December, 1993

1994

Cover Content
January/February 1994
March/April 1994
  • If I Only Had A Brain
  • Speech Recognition Products Untie Your Hands
  • Telecommuting in the '90s
  • Point of View: Not Just Another Database Article
  • Professional Certification Program from IBM
  • Celebrate the Past on Your Trip Back to the Future!
  • OS/2 2.1 Performance Tuning Tips - Part II
  • PC File Systems
  • NetWare 4.01 for OS/2: Features and Installation
  • NetWare Requester for OS/2, v2.01: Features and Installation
  • What's New in Novell NetWare 3.12?
  • LAN Analysis Using IBM's DatagLANce Network Analyser
  • NetWare Questions and Answers
May/June 1994
  • Todd Watson: "Wrightsizing " at USAir
  • Getting the Word Out at Chemical Banking Corporation
  • Back Up for the Future
  • Lost in Cyberspace
  • The Book Shelf
  • Threads
  • Redirected Installation of OS/2 2.x
  • LAN Server Ultimedia 1.0 Performance and Tuning
July/Aug 1994
  • IBM's Personal Systems Support Family-Customer-Influenced Design
  • OS/2 Times and Scores the 1994 Indianapolis 500
  • Software compatability: Good Relationship or One Night Stand?
  • Migrating Windows Applications to OS/2: Easing the Migration Path
  • OS/2 Conference Draws Praise
  • DCE: An Application Primer
  • Distributed Performance Characteristics of IBM DCE for OS/2
  • Architecture Soup: Understanding Modern IBM PC Architecture
  • TSHELL: A Text-Based Alternate Shell for OS/2
  • Extended Attributes for Files
  • Developing Lotus Notes Applications
  • Conserving Power with Personal Systems Power Management
  • Superstor/DS Data Compression in PC DOS 6.x
  • LAN Net/View Object Registration Services
September/October 1994
  • "Sneaker Net" or Systems Management?
  • Like Father Like Son
  • The Book Shelf
  • Cajun Electric Cooks Up OS/2 GUI with VisPro/REXX!
  • Application Development by Program Integration
  • IBM REXX for NetWare
  • GammaTech REXX SuperSet/2-Give Your REXX Programs the Power of C
  • BranchCard: A Viable Option to Stand Alone Hubs
  • A Hands-On Primer for REXX
  • Visual REXX Development Environments
  • CID Installation of OS/2 2.11 and LAPS
  • Upgrading from Microsoft LAN Manager to IBM LAN Server 3.0
  • Stretching Your LAN with LAN Distance
  • DB2/2-More Than Ever Before!
  • NetBIOS, SNA, and NetWare IPX Coexistance Under OS/2
November/December 1994
  • Evolution, Not Revolution-Pen Computing Comes of Age
  • Handwriting Recognition: The State of the Art
  • Pen Digitizing Hardware
  • It's HaPENing!
  • Bill Carr: Fastest Draw in the West
  • Work Management in the Field
  • Communication Without Wires: IBM's Mobile Communications Module
  • Tomorrow's Networking Today-From IBM's Personal Systems Competency Center
  • Customers Speak Out About Consult Line
  • New DeScribe 5.0-Leader of the Pack
  • Super-Fast PenDOS
  • Pen for OS/2
  • A Development Environment for Pen-Centric Applications
  • Writing DOS Installation Programs for Selective Boot Systems
  • OS/2 for PowerPC: Transforming Architecture into Implementation
Special OS/2 Warp Edition
  • OS/2: Past, Warp, and Future
  • PC Computing Done Right
  • The Warp Client, a Gift to the Network Administrator
  • Warp Installation
  • IBM Works for OS/2
  • Giving New Life to Old Iron
  • Warp Multimedia
  • Warp, the Right Tool
  • Warping the Home User
  • Surfing (Warping) the Internet
  • Who are These People and Why are They Saying...
  • Warp for the Windows User
  • It's a Killer!
  • Let's See the Wizard
  • May you Live in Interesting Times
  • New Product Information
  • Warp: Fast Action for "Gamers"

1995

Cover Content
January/February 1995

Cover: OS/2 Warp: this futuristic operating system is here today! Tried and tested by the masses! Backward-compatible with all your favorite applications! Easy to install! OS/2 Warp has it all--even a great name and an even greater look!

Cover Photo: Manfred Ayers, Arlington Texas

  • From the Editor - Have You Been Warped? by Betty Hawkins
  • Technical Connection Personal Software Is the Answer!
  • Visualizer, DB2/2, and You - An End-User's Perspective
  • Insiders' Software Unveiled
  • Need a Specialist for Your LAN Server 4.0?
  • One-Stop Shopping by Fred Castaneda
  • OS/2 Warp by Edward Duhe'
  • OS/2 for SMP
  • Multimedia File I/O Services
  • Need a Fix?
  • IBM LAN Server 4.0: New Features and Comparisons with NetWare
  • IBM DCE Heterogeneous Enterprise Performance
  • OS/2, DOS, and Windows NT Coexistence
  • OS/2 for SMP and Windows NT Coexistence
  • Corrective Service Information
March/April 1995

About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr takes us down the highway of reality, through an illusory door, and beyond to a vast universe of possibilities. Internet provides this superhighway to information, and OS/2 Warp's Internet Access Kit provides the door to the world of Internet.

May/June 1995

About the Cover: Local area networks...they connect, they distribute, they make our lives easier, and sometimes they don't do any of the above. Dallas artist Bill Carr chose a fond childhood image to portray the modern-day technology of local area networks.

July/August 1995

About the Cover: Databases make order out of chaos, weaving like and unlike bits of information into a fabric from which data can be extracted in whatever form you need. Dallas artist Bill Carr uses this analogy, along with his inimitable style, to illustrate the cover of our database issue.

September/October 1995

About the Cover: Social interfaces continue to evolve, making human interaction with computers more friendly and familiar. The concept of this human-like approach to computing is reflected in noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's cover, where man meets machine with a universally- recognized gesture of cooperation.

November/December 1995

About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's highly effective use of visual imagery perfectly depicts the idea of connectivity on this month's cover.

1996

Cover Content
January/February 1996

About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr uses Todd Watson's analogy of 18th century global mercantilism to illustrate this issue's cover. The basic need to communicate has driven civilizations for centuries to identify ever more efficient ways to communicate. This issue of Personal Systems focuses on Lotus Notes--enabling you to link to the world.

March/April 1996

About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr captures the essence of SOM's flexibility and power in this issues's cover, SOM transforms your application development efforts, letting you build robust, reusable, distributed applications.

  • From the Editor: The Object of This Issue
  • What's New?
  • Seton Hall Students Lead the Way From the Wireless to the Real World
  • "Out, Damn Spot!" or How to Rid Your OS/2 Desktop of Pesky Programs
  • Why SOM? [4]
  • IBM System Object Model--The Wave of the Future (and Now!) [5]
  • Building SOM Objects with Native C++
  • Distributing Objects with DSOM
  • Using OpenDoc and SOM in Application Development
  • Enabling Industrial-Strength OO Applications with SOM and CORBAservices [6]
  • SOM Language Neutrality: A VisualAge for SmallTalk Perspective
  • SOM Language Neutrality: An OO COBOL Perspective [7]
  • Corrective Service Information
May/June 1996

About the Cover: A systems administrator, like an orchestra conductor, strives to keep disparate components working together in harmony. With management, the individual parts operate as a harmonious system. Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's whimsical cover illustration reflects this analogy.

July/August 1996

About the Cover: Application development is symbolized in this issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr. The crystalline rose, at its base only suggestive of its real world counterpart, transforms into a real flower, just as an application, beginning its existence as formless ideas, evolves into a tangible tool.

  • What's New?
  • Securing Your Communications from Mainframe to Desktop
  • Going Mobile
  • Creating Applications with VisualAge C++'s NMAKE Facility CODE UPDATE
  • Building Object-Oriented Applications from Existing C Code [9]
  • SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer [10]
  • Choosing the Right MPEG Solution
  • Computer Security and Implementation
  • Installing FixPaks via CID
  • Meeting Your Users' IS Needs
  • Corrective Service Information
September/October 1996

About the Cover: This issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr showcases IBM's PC Server. Offering compatibility, expandability, and reliability, IBM's PC Server solutions take your networking capability to greater heights.

November/December 1996

About the cover: 0S/ 2 Warp 4 is here! This issue's cover illustration by noted Dallas artist Bill Carr proudly announces the latest release of OS/2.

The last issue published was "November & December 1996" and when it was folded IBM published articles intended for the "January & February 1997" issue online instead.

1997

Cover Content
January/February 1997

The last issue was from "January/February 1997" was also published on the web site.

Contributors

  • Betty Hawkins - Editor
  • Van Landrum - The Personal Systems Magazine's business manager, also wrote a regular column called "Road Trip" that dealt mainly with the internet.
  • Gregory Piamonte
  • Fred Castaneda - Had a regular column called "One-Stop Shopping"
  • Richard K. Goran - Wrote on REXX related subjects.
  • Rick Weaver
  • Chris Fierros
  • Steven P. Schneer
  • Edward Duhé
  • Bret Curran
  • Randall Johnson
  • Philip Lieberman
  • Herman Rodriguez

Additional Notes

IBM provided permission for the articles to be republished, but sadly I was only able to find the online ones. If you have a copy of the physical magazine and you can scan it, I will request IBM permission to republish it online.

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